The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 24

The little tailor went up to him, and greeting him cheerfully said: “Good-day, friend; there you sit at your ease viewing the whole wide world.

Who acts: little tailor, greeting, you · What happens: go up, greet, say, sit, view · To what, where: field, ease, whole wide world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, greeting, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
10	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 said	csubj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 greeting	obj
12	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	10 greeting	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Good	punct
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 friend	punct
20	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	vocative
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sit	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
24	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 ease	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ease	nmod:poss
27	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	obl
28	viewing	view	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sit	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
31	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 world	amod
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 viewing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	the little tailor		field			tree rules
2	greet speech: greet	gerund			field		cheerfully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	greeting					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sit in a quote	present	you			your ease; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
5	view in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the whole wide world				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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